Pic from that show

Feeling good about what is developing.

Stay tuned, honestly... there is music coming. We are just tragically slow at producing it.

I will say that I have been immersed in this new idea that I think is going to be about wandering about, looking for home. Never really settling, just sampling life.

Pretty sure that's what it's about. It'll be on here so look for it.

Need a title...

J

Poster from first ever Gig

Lots of new ideas being tossed from province to province at the moment. We are getting there. Hope to share soon!

Happy New Year!

We used to have a tradition of very carefully selecting the first song to be played in the new year, sometimes in hopes that it might set the tone for the entire year to come. What's your first song for 2012?

Merry Christmas!

From all of us,


Have a safe and happy holiday!
We'll be back in 2012 with new music to share with you!




The Flying Public

Holiday work to begin soon.

Sorry for the long silence...

We have to balance our adopted real lives with chaos and creation in the basement.

Over the holidays we will be pushing on with "Whites Lines" and starting work on "The Middle" a song that was actually played live one time in 2005.

During this revisiting of ghosts of FP past we have found that new ideas for new songs have crept out as well. I think the consensus is that we will work on the best ideas, old or new and see what happens.

My hope is that we can start to show you the fruits of our labour sooner than later.
Stick with us. It's more fun when you're around.

Jon

Keep watching this space

Old school sticker pic!
Circa 2004

Screaming fields of sonic Jon...

Today, for the first time in seven years, the Flying Public was re-united in full, with all four original members having contributed to the demo that has now put on more miles than my car, collecting tracks and forming into a song.    Yes, that's a shot of our recording set-up with my finger in front of part of the shot (I'm a photographer in my spare time).  Oh look, there's the iPad again...wonderful things they can do now-a-days!  Doesn't look quite as fancy as Cameron's set up...but it did the trick...

Jon and I are far from being qualified recording engineers, but we pulled it off. With the iRig and an SM57 in an Xbox Rock Band mic stand, some photography equipment rigged up for the 'studio' walls, and a whole lot of ambition and excitement, we put vocal tracks on top of the instrumental, the end result sounding (we think) better than some of our early FP studio demo sessions. 

Ok so it's still far from perfect in terms of recording quality, but did I mention this is a demo?  While remeniscing about Fostex four-tracks we realized how much better recording life is now that the future is now.  I just hope we didn't mess up Kyle's guitar tone too much...

Now the next step...we take the song, listen to it in our cars and on our iPods a million times, get hyper-critical about it all, and make it even better...

I can't wait.

Cheers,
Dave